... law. Disliking law and took up writing. He then left school and began working for several newspapers, including El Espectador in Bogotá. The setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the fictional town of Macondo, Columbia, which is much like Garcí Marquez's own hometown of Aracataca. The time is span is unclear at times, but it is roughly from the early-mid 19th century to the ... mid-20th century. Macondo is isolated, rural, and surrounded by jungle. Literary critics have coined a term for this bold interweaving of imagination and reality: Magical Realism. ...

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